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Enhance your courses and personal research with several new services and research tools available from the TAMU Libraries and the World Wide Web. We will pick up where we left off last year with a demonstration of some of our new databases from across the academic disciplines, value-added library services, as well as a show and tell of a few interesting websites and tools for research and leisure.

Texas A&M University Libraries has adopted screen capture
software as a tool to assist with website usability studies.
This poster session provides an introduction to the software
package used to record the usability sessions in which
volunteers were asked to complete specific tasks on the
Libraries’ website. It also outlines the steps involved to produce
thematic videos to demonstrate various website “hotspots”
(problem features) using clips from the first-hand testimonials of
test subjects. Overall, this session will showcase how the power
of screen capture can foster organizational buy-in and
administrative support for website redesign through the
presentation of “unbiased” data directly from the source –
Sometimes seeing is believing!

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Williams, Joseph; Goodwin, Susan; Sharkey, Jennifer(Association of College and Research Libraries, April 20, 2006)

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Abstract:

In October 2005, nine Library and Computing services faculty from six universities around the U.S. began writing a book collaboratively. The book, entitled Teaching with Technology: An academic librarian’s guide, will be published by Chandos Publishing, Oxford in early 2007. Each contributing author is writing, or helping write at least one chapter for the project. Because the authors are spread out geographically, and because the book is focused on technology use, we decided to use an online environment as a collaboration, project management, and professional networking tool during our 14-month project. The tool we selected is called Imeem, available for free from www.imeem.com.